What Does the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II) Really Measure?

Cognitive and psychological flexibility after a traumatic brain injury and the implications for treatment in acceptance-based therapies: A conceptual review

“…It also explained additional variance in impairment and functionality in a clinical population (Gloster et al, 2011). However, at least one study has raised questions about the ability of the AAQ-II to discriminate between psychological flexibility and measures of psychological well-being (Wolgast, 2014). It was found that the AAQ-II items were more strongly related to other items of distress than items that measured acceptance.…”

“…It was found that the AAQ-II items were more strongly related to other items of distress than items that measured acceptance. Wolgast (2014) suggested this is a problem in how psychological flexibility has been operationalised as it may be a dynamic psychological process that is not easily captured by static, self-report measures. Such views also support the contextual nature of psychological flexibility.…”

“…Research indicates that ACT promotes psychological flexibility in a range of contexts and psychological/health conditions (Ruiz, 2010) but the construct appears to be transitioning from the ACT framework and being used more broadly in psychology. A challenge in the interpretation of this research is that aspects of the conceptualisation of the psychological flexibility construct appear to be still evolving and require further clarification (Wolgast, 2014). The process of creating some separation from distressing thoughts, emotions or experiences and changing the function of the thought rather than the content.…”

The relationship between psychological flexibility, early maladaptive schemas, perceived parenting and psychopathology

“…Although the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II, Bond et al, 2011) has been most widely used measure of psychological flexibility, recently there have been concerns that it is conflated with psychological distress (Wolgast, 2014). Additionally, measures have recently been developed to measure specific core psychological flexibility processes that contribute additional variance in associated psychological processes beyond the AAQ (Gillanders et al, 2014;Smout et al, 2014).…”

Evitación experiencial, afrontamiento y ansiedad en estudiantes de una universidad pública de Lima Metropolitana

“…Finalmente, resulta importante prestar atención a lo que están midiendo realmente los instrumentos u lizados. Si bien el AAQ-II es el instrumento más usado en el mundo para medir la EE, se han planteado ciertas dudas acerca de su validez (Wolgast, 2014), por lo que son necesarios otros estudios que busquen reproducir las relaciones halladas con otros instrumentos, como el Cues onario Breve de Evitación Experiencial (BEAQ; Gámez et al, 2014) o el Cues onario de Evitación y Fusión (AFQ-Y; Schmalz y Murrell, 2010). Por otra parte, si bien el IDARE es un instrumento ampliamente u lizado para evaluar la ansiedad y posee buenas propiedades psicométricas, no se establece en él dis nción entre los componentes cogni vos y fisiológicos de la ansiedad.…”